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This Is My Longest Part Yet... So Enjoy!

Disclaimer! I Don't Own Vampire Academy! Just Did A Little Tweaking (:

Dimitri POV

It's hard to believe we were here only a day ago to rescue the one's who were captured. It's hard to believe that this is the place where I lost Rose forever.

I looked at the caves only a few feet ahead of us, it looked like a wasteland. There was blood everywhere.

Janine and Stan came running back from searching the perimeter of the caves. Apparently all the Strigoi had left, but not without leaving their mark.

We got divided into 4 groups of 4 to search the caves. Please let Rose be in there. I know.. it probably sounds really bad for me to wish her death. Honestly.. It's so much better than being... you know.

My group was told to go the section in the back of the cave to search for any remains. As soon as we set foot in the cave it felt like we were walking onto a war field. The stench smelled like death and there was splatters of blood everywhere. We passed by two bodies in total as we were making our way to the back. Our group shouldn't stop to retrieve them because the other groups would be doing that. Plus, we would lose a member to go bring back the body.

Our group consisted of Stan, Janine, Krista, and I. Unfortunately for Krista, she just came from an academy in Germany to help out, since we're short on guardians and all. Well at least her time here will be memorable.

As we were halfway through the cave we heard whimpering coming from farther in. We picked up the pace slightly, still keeping watch of our surroundings. When we reached our location in the back of the cave we immediately went into our defensive positions. There in the back of the cave, was an alive Eddie Castile and crouching over him, was a black figure.

Janine was the first to speak, "Turn around!"

The figure hesitated, but then got up from it's crouch and stepped back from Eddie. It slowly turned around for us to see that it had female, red-ringed eyes. Stan switched to offensive and started to charge at the strigoi. Don't hesitate. My stomach did a flip as I remembered teaching Rose.

Before Stan could take his second step, the strigoi stuck her arm out and held Eddie in front of her and brought one of her hands to Eddie's neck. Stan stopped in his tracks right away. She was going to use him as a hostage. Smart move. I would've praised her if she were anything but strigoi.

"Don't move. I'll snap his neck before you even lift your foot from the ground."

Her voice echoed throughout the cave. It was innocent sounding, but she was anything but. I wouldn't be surprised if the other groups heard it as well. Hopefully, they wouldn't come charging in. That would just make matters worse.

Nobody moved an inch from where they were standing. Eddie whimpered in her grip, slightly struggling. He had bite marks all over his neck which were probably from her.

We stood there for at least 2 minutes before Krista stepped forward with her palms up, no stake in hand.

"We just want the boy, then we'll be on our way."

She was completely open. The strigoi could strike right then and there if she wanted to but she didn't even blink.

We all stood still for about 30 seconds and the strigoi just looked at her with an expression that almost looked like she was bored.

"I'm afraid I can't return him. He's mine now. You'll have to go find another dhampir you need to rescue." Eddie whimpered again and the strigoi tightened her grip on his neck even though she didn't need to. Eddie was so weak from loss of blood there was not much he could do.

How are we gonna get out of this one? It seems like no one else in our group knew what to do either. Krista picked up her stake from the ground. The strigoi kept watch on every breath we took. We could not afford to make any mistakes, it would cost Eddie's head... Literally.

"Since we're going to be here for a while why don't we get to know one another?" The strigoi was obviously having fun in this situation because she had one of the most sly smiles I've ever seen.

"But first!" She carried on with that grin plastered on her face, "I'll need you to drop your stakes to the ground and kick them into that corner." She pointed to a corner to her right about 10 feet away from her.

Janine and I exchanged glances and then looked at the strigoi who's hand was still at Eddie's neck. It didn't look like we had a choice. We dropped our stakes to the cold ground in the cave and kicked them into the corner. This is not good.

Her smile grew even more to show her teeth layered in blood. Hell, even I would be smiling. She has the upper hand and she knows it.

"Good little guardians. Now, let's take a seat and get to know each other." She dropped to the floor on her butt and brought Eddie down to sit next to her. Her grip didn't even loosen. "Come now, sit! Don't be shy!"

We clearly didn't have a choice in this either so we all lowered to the floor. We all sat on our knees which was easier to get up if she attacked. Which is really what we were all thinking she was going to do.

"Alrighty! Now let's start shall we? My name's Brittney, my favourite colour is pink, and I have one sister and had two brothers." She finished with a sad smile. We all sort of looked at each other with weird expressions that said 'What the hell is up with her? Is she psycho?'

Krista cleared her throat and asked, "What uhh... Happened to your brothers?"

Brittney's suddenly looked very guilty. Maybe she realized what she's doing and decide to give us Eddie and let us go unscathed! But that was clearly not the case when she spoke.

"Oh, I killed them. They were too weak to catch up with the rest of us so we got rid of them. We didn't want to be falling back from this mission."

"Mission? What kind of mission?" Janine spoke very carefully. She's fully aware at how this could turn out if she said something that bothered Brittney. Especially since it already seemed like she should be in a loony bin. But Brittney just continued merrily.

"Oh, It's my sister's mission. Her name is Ashleigh. She's really soooooo nice. You should meet her sometime! You'll like her! Although, she doesn't really have a lot of time to spend with me because she's always so busy with work and such. Having a rank in the Strigoi Court really is time consuming."

We all looked at each other at the last statement. Strigoi have a court of their own... This was clearly news to all of us. Krista wanted to dig deeper into the subject.

"I didn't know strigoi had a court. Is your sister and important person?"

Brittney thought about it for a moment, as if she was thinking of telling us or not, and then decided she would. "She's very important. She works directly for Daddy! And daddy is the most powerful strigoi on Earth! He really is amazing though, he's never lost to anyone! Ashleigh was always daddy's favourite, probably because she was so powerful." She ended with a pout.

"Do you think Ashleigh could beat your dad in a fight?" Krista dared to ask another question.

Clearly Brittney didn't like it because she stood up and left Eddie on the floor with no hand on his neck. He looked terrified as Brittney's eyes got more red, if possible. His eyes also looked around for anything he could use to get away but they found nothing. He knew he couldn't run because he was so weak so he simply slumped over helplessly.

"How dare you insult my father. He is great; he is powerful! Nobody stands a chance against him!"

In a flash, Brittney ran forward and tore Krista's head off. I decided to take this opportunity to run forward as well to get to Eddie, but Brittney was faster than me. She picked me up by my duster and tossed me back to where I was before. I landed with an umff as I met the cold ground once again.

"Naughty guardian. I didn't tell you to move yet.. I'm still telling you all about my sister!" After seeing she once again gained all of our attention she continued, "Anyways, Ashleigh is in a very high position in the Strigoi Court. She can do anything she wants really... But lately, she's been getting really lonely. I was busy with my work so I couldn't be with her. So she started to go on a search to find someone powerful enough to have by her side in court. Of course, this person has to be very powerful to be able to work directly for Daddy so she searched everywhere. Which is why she got permission to send us here so we can turn someone to be with her. If they weren't, then we'd.. you know... dispose of them."

She stood silently for a moment and then we realized she was finished the tale of her sister. Janine spoke very carefully, clearly thinking over her words.

"Did she find someone here?"

Brittney jumped up and down happily and clapped her hands. "Oh Yes! She's very pretty! She just turned her the other night when all of you were here! She was part of the 'rescue' team." She put air quotations around rescue and smiled.

"Who was it?" Stan asked. He didn't think over his words at all. I think we all knew who was chosen to be with Brittney's sister.

"I didn't get a chance to ask her name!" Brittney pouted, "Ashleigh turned her as soon as she grabbed her so I didn't get to talk to her! She was reeeaally pretty though! She had looong brown hair in a ponytail. She even had Molnija marks! I think Ash knew the moment she was her that she was strong!"

No... Rose... Janine's head hung over. I didn't need to ask to tell that she was crying.

"Oh dear! Did I say something wrong?" Brittney's eyes widened innocently.

After a split second they widened in pain and screamed as her body burst into flames. Stan ran to the corner to get our stakes and threw mine at me, which I caught midair. Stan then staked Brittney as she was writhing in pain from the flames. I rushed over to Eddie to pick him up and ran towards the cave's entrance. Janine and Stan followed behind me. I hoped one of them at least picked up Krista's remains but I can understand if they didn't. After all, there was two parts of her to pick up.

We soon caught up to another figure running who I noticed was Christian. He must have followed us on the way here. But frankly, I'm glad he did. I wonder how much he heard in our little conversation with Brittney. I only thought of one person when I was leaving the cave... I'll save you.

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